Authorities Sunday
checked out more reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in the
Southeast, but quickly dispelled a fear that something from another world
had fallen in a Georgia field.

The Georgia State
Patrol said a glowing green cylinder found near Manchester Saturday night,
shortly after several persons said they saw UFOs buzzing the area, turned
out to be only a commonly used automobile trouble flare.

But reports continued
to pour in, from police and civilians. Two military policeman said something
dived at their car near Hunter Army Air Base south of Savannah and forced
them off the road. A state patrol trooper based in Manchester said a UFO
whisked pass his car, going so fast there was "no way" he could
get a close look.

A cameraman for WAGA-TV
in Atlanta recorded 90-seconds of film of a UFO near Manchester early Sunday.
It showed a hovering, glowing light changing colors rapidly.

Reports of the objects
continued Sunday night, centered around Griffin, Ga., south of Atlanta.
The sightings were similar to all those of the past several weeks, consisting
of multi-colored lights moving eratically.

Police in five east
central Alabama cities reported sightings early Sunday.

Officer Keith Broach
of Auburn, Ala., said he saw something the size of an airplane, which appeared
red and white, changed to green and then to white before flying away.

A policeman at Lanett,
Ala., said he saw an object about the size of a car, coming to within 150
feet of the ground.

There also were sightings
reported by police in Carrville, Notasulga and Tuskegee, Ala.

Military policeman
Bert Burns and Randy Shade said in Sabannah that an airborn object dived
toward their car as they were making a routine patrol near Hunter Air Base.
They said it hovered near the car and pursued them as they raced to headquarters.

They said at first
they saw "quick flashing lights, traveling at a high rate of speed
from east to west, about 2000 feet above ground level" and then dived
on them, forcing them off the road before disappearing into the darkness.

A Georgia police
spokesman said a trooper assigned to the Manchester headquarters had seen
a UFO hovering at tree-top level.

"It went over
the unit (patrol car) and was going so fast there was no way he could even
get close enough to identify it," he said.